[governance] Call for Nominations - Brazil committees
Kivuva
Kivuva at transworldafrica.com
Tue Jan 7 03:25:52 EST 2014
I also endorse Norbert's nomination. He's a trusted pair of hands and
an asset to the community.
On 07/01/2014, Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga at hotmail.com> wrote:
> + 1 for Nobert.
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> CC: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; nb at bollow.ch; ian.peter at ianpeter.com;
> jeremy at ciroap.org
> From: ecrire at catherine-roy.net
> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 18:15:04 -0500
> To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; kichango at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [governance] Call for Nominations - Brazil committees
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> I also support Norbert's candidacy.
> Cheers,
> --Catherine Roywww.catherine-roy.net
> On 2014-01-06, at 18:01, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I support Norbert's self-nomination/expression of interest to serve on the
> Executive Committee.I am confident he will be a great asset for ensuring the
> inclusion of broader civil society perspectives during the agenda setting
> exercise for the BR meeting.
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> Thanks,
> Mawaki
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> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 9:33 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
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> Jeremy and Ian and all,
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> this is an expression of interest to serve on the Executive Committee
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> for the São Paulo meeting.
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> My chief interest in this context is to contribute to ensuring that
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> the agenda setting process for the São Paulo meeting will be
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> sufficiently inclusive of all relevant perspectives: Of course a single
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> two-days event that aims to reach a consensus on an outcome document
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> cannot productively address a too big range of topics, but I would
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> insist that it is critically important to carefully ensure that the
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> framing of the discourse on those topics is open enough that no kinds
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> of perspectives, especially no civil society perspectves, are excluded
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> from the outset.
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> Brief biography: Born in Germany in 1968 and attended public schools
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> there; moved to Switzerland in 1985 and studied mathematics and physics
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> and some informatics in Zurich. Significant technical experience
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> especially with FOSS technologies and standardization work. Active in
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> organized civil society processes related to IT and the Internet since
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> 2004. Careful to keep the topics of civil society engagement separated
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> clearly from the topics of business interests.
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> Relevant experience includes:
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> * Chairmanship of the “Swiss Internet User Group” (SIUG), 2006-2009.
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> * Having successfully negotiated, as a civil society person, with
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> Microsoft a fix to their patent non-assertion pledge regarding OOXML
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> and some other specifications to resolve a potential patent threat
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> to GPL-licensed software. (PJ of Groklaw was so surprised that she
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> published a picture of a flying pig, in relation to this.)
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> * Chairmanship of the Swiss mirror committee for international
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> standards on “Document Description and Processing Languages".
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> * Participation in the drafting process for the outcome document of
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> the 2013 WSIS+10 review event in Paris.
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> * Having served as a co-coordinator of the IGC for most of 2013.
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> * Participated and organized workshops at multiple IGFs. This includes
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> successful cooperation with the “focal points” for the CSTD Enhanced
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> Cooperation WG for all non-governmental stakeholder constituencies to
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> hold a workshop at the Bali IGF on “MS selection processes:
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> accountability and transparency” (workshop 127).
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> Greetings,
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> Norbert
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> Am Sun, 22 Dec 2013 15:41:17 +1100
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> schrieb "Ian Peter" <ian.peter at ianpeter.com>:
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>> This is a call for nominations to represent civil society on planning
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>> committees in preparations for the “Global Multistakeholder Meeting
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>> on Internet Governance”, to be held in Sao Paulo Brazil on April 23
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>> and 24 2014.
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>> • Committee No. 1: Multistakeholder HighLevel Committee (HLC)
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>> This committee will set the high level political tone and objectives
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>> conference. Committee members will engage on a global level with
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>> encourage participation in the conference and maximize its chances of
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>> This committee will include 4 civil society representatives.
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>> • Committee No. 3: Multistakeholder Executive Committee (EC)
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>> This committee owns the full responsibility of organizing the event,
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>> conference purpose/agenda, managing invitations, organizing input
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>> received into a coherent set of proposals for the conferees to
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>> address, managing conference proceedings and process, and directing
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>> all communications activities pre/during/post conference. This
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>> committee will include 2 civil society representatives
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>> The deadline for submitting expressions of interest is midnight UTC 7
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>> January 2014.
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>> If you are interested, you are invited to send a brief biography and
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>> a statement of relevant background and experience in response to this
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>> topic, or if you would prefer, you can send it to
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>> ian.peter at ianpeter.com (pending the appointment of a replacement IGC
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>> representative on the co-ordination group). At the closing date for
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>> nominations, nominations submitted to various civil society networks
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>> will be compiled and assessed by the Civil Society Co ordination
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>> Group.
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>> Please indicate clearly at the beginning of your application whether
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>> it is for the High Level Committee (HLC) or Executive Committee (EC)
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>> CRITERIA
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>> The following factors (among others) will be used to assess the
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>> suitability of candidates
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>> 1. Able to represent civil society as a whole, not just your
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>> individual civil society organisation(s)
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>> 2. Able to work collegiately with other stakeholder groups in a
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>> multistakeholder setting
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>> 3. Able to consult widely with civil society groups and to
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>> 4. Ability to represent civil society at a senior level in these
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>> 5. Broad knowledge of internet governance issues and the range
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>> of civil society perspectives on these issues
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>> 6. Capacity to participate assertively and creatively
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>> Explanation of process
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>> The civil society coordinating group is a loose peak body that came
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>> together this year to facilitate joint civil society participation in
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>> several nominating processes. It currently comprises persons from
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>> the most active civil society coalitions or networks in the Internet
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>> governance space, which in no particular order are the Internet
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>> Governance Caucus, Diplo Foundation, Best Bits, the Non Commercial
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>> Stakeholder Group of ICANN, and the Association for Progressive
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>> Communications. The current liaisons are Virginia Paque, Jeremy
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>> Malcolm, Robin Gross and Chat Garcia Ramilo, with Ian Peter as an
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>> independent facilitator. Its current composition is imperfect - the
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>> boundary between an organisation and network is grey, and so is the
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>> scope of "Internet governance". In particular, we are reaching out
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>> to other civil society networks to further broaden the inclusiveness
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>> of the group and have developed a draft set of criteria to assist in
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>> this process.
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>> Likewise, the process for gathering and reaching consensus is also a
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>> work in progress, but progressive improvements to the process have
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>> been put in place since the group's first nomination. These
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>> improvements include refinement of criteria for each member network
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>> to consider when putting forward names for consideration. Other
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>> suggested changes to the process, such as the use of a
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>> randomly-selected nominating committee, have not met with consensual
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>> support from within the group and so have not been adopted for this
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>> nomination. However, the coordinating group welcomes other
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>> suggestions for improvement of the joint process.
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>> Ian Peter
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